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MG302 Tutorial Questions

This document outlines the tutorial questions for 16 units of a Human Resources Management course. The units cover topics such as strategic HR, HR planning, HR information systems, recruitment, selection, performance management, training and development, motivation, remuneration, benefits, industrial relations, health and safety, managing change, diversity, and international assignments. For each unit, 5-7 multiple choice or discussion questions are provided to guide tutorial sessions. The questions assess students' understanding of HR concepts, theories, processes, and their application to organizational practices.

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MG302 Tutorial Questions

This document outlines the tutorial questions for 16 units of a Human Resources Management course. The units cover topics such as strategic HR, HR planning, HR information systems, recruitment, selection, performance management, training and development, motivation, remuneration, benefits, industrial relations, health and safety, managing change, diversity, and international assignments. For each unit, 5-7 multiple choice or discussion questions are provided to guide tutorial sessions. The questions assess students' understanding of HR concepts, theories, processes, and their application to organizational practices.

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MG302: Human Resources Management – Tutorial

Questions – Semester 1, 2021

Unit 1/2: Introduction to Human Resource Management (Week 2: Tutorial 1) – Chapter 1

1. Define the concept human resource management and discuss its objectives?
2. Discuss the functions of human resource management and provide an example from an
organisation of your choice.
3. Explain the meaning of strategic human resource management?
4. Examine the role of human resource management in the changing business environment.
5. Discuss the challenging facing human resources management. Provide one example each
from a Pacific Island country and from one developed country?

Unit 3: Strategic Human Resource Management (Week 3: Tutorial 2) – Chapter 2

1. Define human resources planning and provide an examples from an organisation of your
choice?
2. Discuss the importance of human resources planning and provide examples to support your
answers?
3. Identify the key environmental influences on human resource planning and provide
examples to support you answers?
4. Describe the ways of forecasting human resource requirements?
5. Discuss the requirements for effective human resource planning and provide examples to
support your answers?

Unit 4 & 5: Human Resource Information Management System/Human Resources & Law
(Week 4: Tutorial 3) – Chapter 3 & 4.

1. Describe the relationship between strategic human resource management and human
resource information management systems (HRIMS).
2. Discuss the use of HRIMS in the contemporary (modern) human resource functions?
3. Examine key issues that will determine the success or failure of an HRIMS?
4. Explain the importance of law as it relates to human resource management?
5. Identify the legal requirements at various stages of employee recruitment and selection and
provide example from any Pacific Island country?
6. Discuss the procedures for terminating employees and provide example from any country
of your choice?

Unit 5 & 6: Job Analysis, Job Design and Quality of Work Life & Recruiting Human
Resources (Week 5: Tutorial 4) – Chapter 5 & 6.

1. Explain the terms job analysis and job design and discuss their importance in human
resource management?

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2. Develop a job description of a human resources manager and explain the importance of a
job description to the job holders as well as the organisation?
3. Explain what is meant by competency profiling and discuss quality of life?
4. Explain strategic recruitment and how it relates to an organisation’s strategic plan?
5. Discuss the major internal and external sources of human resources and discuss two
advantages and disadvantages of each?
6. Discuss the factors that human resources officers used when evaluating the recruitment
activity?

Unit 8 & 10A: Employee Selection/Career Planning & Development (Week 5: Tutorial 4) –
Chapter 7 & 8.

1. Explain strategic selection and selection policy?


2. Examine the need for validation of employee selection procedures?
3. Identify and explain the key steps in the selection process?
4. Discuss the relationships between strategy, performance management and performance
appraisal?
5. Discuss the major types of performance appraisal systems.
6. Discuss the psychological principles of learning and provide the core concepts in learning
using examples from organisation of your choice.

Unit 10B: Human Resource Development & Career Planning and Development (Week 6:
Tutorial 5) – Chapter 9 &10.

1. Explain the importance of human resource development to organisational success. Provide


example from an organisation of your choice.
2. Explain the meaning of strategic human resource development and the need for a
systematic approach to training and development.
3. Describe the key characteristics of an effective orientation program.
4. Discuss the importance of career planning and development.
5. Discuss the human resource department’s role in career planning and development.
6. Discuss some of the major factors contributing to successful career development.

Unit 11 & 12: Employee Motivation & Remuneration (Week 8: Tutorial 6) – Chapters 11 &
12.

1. Explain the importance of strategic motivation.


2. Examine the features of the major theories of motivation.
3. Explain the effectiveness of money as a motivator.
4. Discuss the need to link remuneration policies and practices to an organisation’s strategic
business objectives.
5. Identify the key objectives of employee remuneration.

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6. Explain how to link pay to performance.

Unit 13: Employee Benefits & Industrial Relations (Week 9: Tutorial 7) – Chapters 13 & 14.

1. Explain why organisations provide benefits to employees.


2. Discuss the link between strategic business objectives and employee benefits.
3. Examine benefits, change and the future of work.
4. Explain the unitarist, pluralist and Marxist approaches to industrial relations.
5. Discuss the role of employers, trade unions and government in industrial relations.
6. Discuss the responsibility of human resource managers in industrial relations.

Unit 14: Negotiation & Employee Health & Safety (Week 10: Tutorial 8) – Chapters 16 &
17.
1. Explain why skills negotiation are important in the workplace.
2. Explain the range of negotiation strategies and tactics.
3. Discuss the significance of power, time and information in negotiation.
4. Explain the importance of a safe and healthy work environment.
5. Discuss the contribution of TQM to improve occupational health and safety performance.
6. Discuss some major current health and safety issues.
7. List the sources of job stress and some possible remedies.

Unit 15: Managing Change & Diversity (Week 11: Tutorial 9) – Chapters 15 & 18
1. Explain the link between strategic business objectives and organisational change.
2. Explain what is meant by the terms learning organisations and knowledge management.
3. Discuss the key elements of downsizing and organisational restructuring.
4. Explain what is meant by diversity management.
5. Discuss the impact of diversity on HRM and apply approaches to diversity management.
6. Explain how globalisation influences diversity issues.

Unit 16: Managing International Assignments (Week 13: Tutorial 11) – Chapters 20
1. Examine the key factors in selecting a person for an international assignment.
2. Explain the major adjustment difficulties encountered by expatriate managers and their
families.
3. Discuss the importance of career planning and repatriation.
4. List the basic components of an expatriate remuneration.

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